This week we had a large amount of movement on hive in the gaming space. Now while some people will say hive-engine isn't a part of hive I think it is. You might consider it a layer two system itself and then all the tokens after that as layer 3 tokens. To me I legit don't care as long as it works and it's been working. Offering up a rather smooth way to get Bitcoin and other cryptos in and out of hive.

Hive Town Hall

Each month on the first of the month Hive gets together with a town hall. It was my recommendation that each town hall should have a theme and instead of speculation and debating hot topics like that happened on the last with reward pools which set everyone on fire and in my opinion gave Hive a bad front image it was instead focused around the gaming side of things.

To me this is a smart move and the direction to go in. By targeting systems like this and brining on people who have been through it already and currently have games running on hive are in the process of building opens up a lot of insight and also to show other developers who might be interested in it to learn why hive could be a great fit for their next venture.

The biggest pluses that Hive offers over other blockchains in my opinion and were also brought up on the town hall are.

Ability To Tap Into Community and Funds

The cool thing about Hive is the way the social side of it works. Through articles, whitepapers, video and threads you can spread awareness of your projects, give updates and collect funds to support your project via upvotes from the community. If done right and well this could net you a decent income for your project which is totally unique to hive right now over other platforms.

Low Fees

With a no fee system and working somewhat like the wax blockchain. Hive allows you to simply power it up and be able to interact on the blockchain but to also use that to sign up new people and delegate resources to your players so they can play.

This no fee system allows you to charge a much lower fee (If you want) such as 1% and then use those fees for your tokens and or hive and other communities to support revenue pay for developers etc. I've even seen it used for DAO funds which I think is super powerful from the Splinterlands team doing.

The Issues Brought Up

The main issues that have been brought up is simply the lack of being able to code on Hive compared to what other blockchains offer. To me that shows us we need our core dev team to be doing better. To give us smart contracts and give other developers the tools to build on hive. If we don't focus on that soon I honestly feel like Hive could very well be left in the dust.

However there are outside devs that are working on this issue and they are doing a rather good job of it so far.

This was from the recent announcement from the Splinterlands cofounder aggy who is now mainly doing operations for GLS Genesis League Sports and their game GLG Genesis League Goals. That platform is a fork of their Splinterlands code but evolves it in a way to offer up even more unique features. Genesis League Sports will be centralized to sports games only of which right now is just soccer.

However it was announced there will be another fork of this called Arcade Colony. This new platform will house arcade style games and focus on brining web2 games into web3. If I had to do any type of comparison from what I know if it so far it would be that it reminds me of GALA. That's actully huge because Gala currently has a team of 90+ people and sports a massive 1.3 million active players. That's huge considering the fact that Hive really only has around 10,000 monthly active users that blog, thread or post videos. Showing that the gaming side has massive potential for hive as those playing the games can now post their social interactions right on the hive blockchain sharing videos, threads and articles about the game. We saw this a lot from the Splinterland side of things already and most likely will continue to see that rolling forward.

Even if just 10% of players wrote articles, created threads or made videos and we hit Gala numbers that would be 130,000 active hive users simply blowing up the current activity. So when I say gaming has real potential for growing the hive ecosystem you can see why.